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Identifying Factors That Influence Persistence of Hawai'i Students Studying at Mainland Colleges: A Phenomenological Multi-Case Study of Higher Education
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Lima, Kevin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of mainland college students, graduates of a unique Hawai'i high school, to identify factors that influenced higher education persistence. Students not persisting at college, a problem for students and higher education institutions is defined for this study as a student that did not return…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Phenomenology, Academic Persistence, Higher Education
An Evaluation of Bias in the 2007 National Household Education Surveys Program: Results from a Special Data Collection Effort. NCES 2009-029
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Van de Kerckhove, Wendy; Montaquila, Jill M.; Carver, Priscilla R.; Brick, J. Michael – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) is a random digit dialing (RDD) survey program developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. The surveys are designed to help NCES collect data directly from households about important education topics.…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Exhibits, Sampling, Labor Force
Healthy Families of Children Who Are Deaf
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Luckner, John L.; Velaski, Ann – American Annals of the Deaf, 2004
Families provide the building blocks for the development of healthy, happy, competent children. The purpose of the present study was to identify and interview healthy families of children who were deaf. The researchers were interested in identifying factors that contribute to families' health as well as in collecting suggestions for other families…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Family (Sociological Unit), Children, Deafness
Design, Data Collection, Interview Administration Time, and Data Editing in the 1996 National Household Education Survey. Working Paper Series.
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Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Nicchitta, Patricia G.; Montaquila, Jill; Collins, Mary A. – 1997
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics that concentrates on aspects of education that can best be addressed through contacts with households rather than institutions. The NHES is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement